I hope you’ll post about how you created you animated screen shots.
I’ve seen scripts to take screenshots at intervals using Imagemagick’s import program. Should be able to do something similar with scrot or perhaps a program that can take framebuffer screenshots.
You can put the various screen captures together using gifsicle ( http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/ ) to created an animated gif.
Would be very curious to know if you use a similar technique or if you’ve found another way to do this. Hope you’ll share your technique with us. Thanks.